Case Study:
Building Mental Performance Under Pressure for a Global Energy Leader

One of the world’s largest energy companies – Incident and Crisis Response Team

Challenge:

The client’s global response team needs to stay calm and composed, maintain situational awareness, and communicate and decide effectively under extreme pressure.

The Approach:

Andrew Couch Coaching Ltd delivered a Mental Performance Toolkit that enables individuals and teams to:

• Prepare for pressure through proactive mental conditioning.
  
  
• Perform under pressure with tools to control focus and execute processes when it matters most.
  
  
• Review and learn from each experience to continually improve resilience and decision-making.

Key components included:

• High-Performance Language: Creating a shared mindset and vocabulary across the team.
  
  
• Leadership Under Pressure: Coaching leaders with real-time feedback and feedforward.
  
  
• Stress & Recovery Monitoring: Establishing baselines for stress, recovery, and sleep.
  
  
• Lifestyle & Habit Training: Showing how daily choices impact resilience under pressure.
  
  

Client:

The Impact:

• Significantly enhanced ability to control focus during real pressure and challenge, enabling individuals and teams to attend to what matters most and execute processes with clarity and confidence - even in the most demanding scenarios.
  
  
• Sleep quality scores improved by 12% – fueling enhanced performance, sharper decision-making, and better energy management.
  
  
• Stress and recovery balance improved by 14% – meaning less stress and more recovery, which drives resilience and sustained high performance.